High Wind Watches in Wisconsin
24 high wind watches since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of high wind watches reaches back to 2005.
High Wind Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- High Wind Watches
- 24
- Busiest year
- 20215 high wind watches
- Average year
- 2over 12 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Door County8
- Kenosha County8
- Milwaukee County8
- Racine County8
- Ozaukee County7
- Washington County7
- Waukesha County7
- Columbia County6
- Dane County6
- Dodge County6
- Green County6
- Iowa County6
- Jefferson County6
- Lafayette County6
- Rock County6
- Sheboygan County6
- Walworth County6
- Fond du Lac County5
- Sauk County5
- Kewaunee County4
- Green Lake County4
- Marquette County4
- Brown County3
- Calumet County3
- Manitowoc County3
- Marinette County3
- Menominee County3
- Oconto County3
- Outagamie County3
- Shawano County3
- Waupaca County3
- Waushara County3
- Winnebago County3
- Crawford County3
- Grant County3
- La Crosse County3
- Richland County3
- Vernon County3
- Douglas County2
- Adams County2
32 more counties
- Buffalo County2
- Chippewa County2
- Clark County2
- Dunn County2
- Eau Claire County2
- Florence County2
- Forest County2
- Jackson County2
- Juneau County2
- Langlade County2
- Lincoln County2
- Marathon County2
- Monroe County2
- Oneida County2
- Pepin County2
- Pierce County2
- Polk County2
- Portage County2
- Saint Croix County2
- Taylor County2
- Trempealeau County2
- Vilas County2
- Wood County2
- Barron County1
- Rusk County1
- Ashland County1
- Bayfield County1
- Burnett County1
- Iron County1
- Price County1
- Sawyer County1
- Washburn County1
Nearby
Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Rebuilt daily.